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highplainsdem

(48,981 posts)
Thu May 18, 2017, 10:13 AM May 2017

Albright: Trump should drop Twitter during overseas trip

Source: The Hill

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on Thursday said she hopes President Trump drops his Twitter habit during his first foreign trip later this week.

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"And I hope, even though we seem to be setting kind of a low bar for this trip, if he just doesn't make mistakes, I hope that there is not one single tweet about anything during the nine days that he's gone."

Albright said she's worried that Trump isn't prepared to deal with the "myriad issues that are out there, which are very complicated."

"And what keeps me up at night is that there's not a full team that is working at the State Department and all the questions about what is happening inside the White House," she said.

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Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/334008-albright-trump-should-drop-twitter-during-overseas-trip



She added that "we have a president who doesn't seem to do his homework."

I don't know if there's ANY chance Trump will be kept off Twitter while he's overseas. I'm not sure he'll be able to resist tweeting an attack on Albright.
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neeksgeek

(1,214 posts)
2. "I'm not sure he'll be able to resist tweeting an attack on Albright."
Thu May 18, 2017, 10:34 AM
May 2017

Albright's response would be a thing of beauty.

jvill

(216 posts)
8. Why on earth would we want him to stop tweeting?
Thu May 18, 2017, 11:07 AM
May 2017

It's been the fodder for half the lawsuits against his policies.

Don't listen Donald! I can't wait to hear if you think Netanyahu's wife is a 10, or whether the Babylonians stole the concept of "zero" from the Scottish...

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,182 posts)
12. Well, I'm sure Donald Trump will listen to the advice a well-respected, accomplished diplomat.
Thu May 18, 2017, 12:40 PM
May 2017

Because that's just what Donald Trump does, amiright?

left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
14. Tweet or not ...
Thu May 18, 2017, 02:42 PM
May 2017

We all know Trump will do and say something stupid over there.
Maybe he'll pass out some more secret intelligence.

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